Lord Ouseley obituary

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''Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality who created Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football, later known as Kick It Out''

''Herman Ouseley, who has died aged 79, was a public servant and campaigner who worked at three levels of government to bring an understanding of the challenges faced by the UK’s black population into the heart of the political establishment.

He did so by creating a link between the neighbourhood-level impacts of racism and the possibility of using the institutions of government to deliver change, during a period when Britain was moving on painfully from the early post-Windrush decades to the multiracial society it is today.

''Working in community relations in south London in the 1970s, Ouseley became head of a pioneering ethnic minorities unit at the Greater London council under Ken Livingstone in the 80s and was appointed in the 90s as chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, where one of his most high-profile achievements was to establish the Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football programme to tackle the racial abuse of professional footballers'' .......... cont

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/06/lord-herman-ouseley-obituary

Quite a career, strove to improve football and footballers lives.